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After a summer of record delays and frayed nerves, the nation's flying public is being told the situation is untenable and will be fixed. It is a tale we have heard before, as recently as a year ago. Flight delays are up 10 percent from last year....

Beleaguered airline passengers looking for immediate relief from a summer of record delays and cancellations received scant hope today from a meeting of airline executives, labor unions, airport executives and the government. The meeting was...

A record number of flight delays and cancellations has prompted officials in Washington to call an unusual meeting on Monday in the hopes of finding ways to ease conditions for beleaguered air travelers. In the face of a growing outcry from...

ONE of the great racial divides of traffic safety is seat belt use; young African-Americans are about 50 percent less likely than other motorists to buckle up, and they have correspondingly higher death rates in highway crashes. But safety experts...

Highway deaths declined last year, with the fatality rate hitting a record low, Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater said today. There were 41,375 people killed on American highways in 1999, down from 41,471 the year before.

April 4, 2000, Tuesday

Grilled until their ears glowed pink, the top overseers of Boston's Big Dig tried to explain to Massachusetts lawmakers today how the project, the largest public works endeavor under way in the country, came to be $1.4 billion over budget, and why...

March 9, 2000, Thursday

House and Senate negotiators agreed today on a three-year plan that would increase spending on airport improvements, air traffic control and other aviation needs by 30 percent and would let local airport authorities increase departure taxes to $4.50...

The Clinton Administration today set a goal of reducing deaths from truck crashes by 50 percent over 10 years and promised quick action on safety questions that had stymied it for years, including revising the 62-year-old rules on how many hours a...

The Federal Aviation Administration said today that it would consider whether airliners can get too old to fly, which would be a change from its longstanding belief that jets are eternal if they are inspected often enough. As a first step, the...

October 2, 1998, Friday

WHEELCHAIR users have been waiting a long time for the bus. While buses with wheelchair lifts on their back doors are becoming commonplace in municipal systems around the country, they are almost nonexistent in the fleets of Greyhound and other major...